Rapper Eminem came under fire recently for–surprise!–singing some homophobic lyrics on his new album. Specifically, he was criticized for making derogatory remarks aimed at rapper Tyler the Creator. Now, in an interview with Sway, he’s expressing regret over his choice of words.

“With the Tyler the Creator thing I realize now,” the 45-year-old rapper tells Sway. “I realize I was angry when I said the sh*t about Tyler.”

So he called him a “f*ggot bitch” in his song “Fall”, a diss track off his album Kamikaze released last month.

The exact lyrics were:

Tyler create nothing, I see why you called yourself a faggot, bitchIt’s not just ’cause you lack attentionIt’s ’cause you worship D12’s balls, you’re sacrilegiousIf you’re gonna critique me, you better at least be as good or better

The rapper was responding to a tweet Tyler wrote back in 2017, describing his song “Walk on Water” as “horrible”.

But Twitter was not having any of Eminem’s latest homophobia:

If you still use that slur in a rap lyric, you're a homophobic ass and I don't fucks with you. Get your basic shit together, Eminem.

In the interview with Sway, Eminem continues: “The word that I called him on that song was one of the things where I felt like, this might be too far. Because in my quest to hurt him, I realized that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it.”

“It was one of the things that I kept going back to going ‘I don’t feel right with this,’” he adds. “Now I realize people can hear what I’m saying anyways…I wasn’t in the right mind frame. I was angry.”

Got that, folks? Eminem is nearly half a century old and he used a gay slur because he was “angry”. You understand, right?

Kieran

AndThenTheresMax

…but the minute he says, “I used homophobic slurs because I’m gay and I couldn’t deal with it.”

Like a bunch of horny church women at a Jimmy Swaggart Worship Weekend most silly queens will get that “Oh poor baby” smirk on their face and say, “Forgiveness is divine stud muffin! I can look past it!” (as they start to seductively unbutton their shirts feigning the sun is parching while they “Madonna snap” open a gigantic glitter fans with “YAAAAASSSS!” across it in ugly silver glitter)

Then the race, to be the first to get in his pants, is back “ON!” #facepalm

Well the racial slur and all the headlines have worked he has the number one album .so his “sorry” is a laugh.he got what he wanted a hit record..next week Paul McCartney will be number one.. what will this rapper do for his next record….even so Paul’s new album has a song called “Fuh you “….

Smith David

Bob LaBlah

Dude, just tell the truth. Elton John said “sorry, but not this time around” (as in another duet to quiet things down) so out of desperation you come with this. It sounds like the album isn’t exactly setting the charts on fire.